Interested In A Commercial Solar Panel Energy System?
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The centre of any solar energy system, solar panels and the power they generate are becoming ever more popular with businesses and organisations of all sizes in the UK. Here’s why –
How Solar Panels Benefit My Business?
Reducing Energy Costs
By generating your own solar power the business saves money on energy through reduced electricity bills. After the solar energy system installation has paid for itself the electricity is virtually free.
Competitive Advantage
Not only are you fixing low energy prices and protecting the business against energy market uncertainty, solar energy improves business image and helps build relationships with customers and suppliers.
Protecting The Business
By securing your own energy supply and storing energy for when it is required gives the business certainty of supply protecting itself against potential rationing and power interruptions.
Securing My Energy Future
Investing in solar power means the business pre-purchases long term electricity at a fixed price making forecasting future energy costs easy.
Protecting The Environment
Unlike fossil fuel powered electricity, generating your own solar energy has little ongoing environmental impact both for the atmosphere and surrounding environment.
Receive A Healthy ROI
A long term investment of 25+ years that typically returns the initial investment in 5 - 8 years with very low cost electricity thereafter, giving an ROI on investment of up to 400%.
Solar energy has become the fastest growing energy source worldwide. As technology has improved both cell and system design, manufacturing capability, since 2009 solar panel prices have fallen 90%, now making solar energy one of the most cost effective investments a business can make.
Reducing Cost & Financial Benefits Of Solar Panels
The price reduction over the last decade now make solar energy a wise investment for any business wanting to access stable, secure and fixed price energy for the long term – over 25 years.
Solar energy has an equivalent energy price of less than a third of grid delivered energy with a price you set when you install the system, the majority of the power free once the installation cost have been paid off, typically 5 – 8 years.
The low cost of energy gives you an advantage over grid reliant competitors at the mercy of events varying the electricity price.
Environmental Benefits
We are all aware of the human effects on the climate, but that is only part of the story. Continuing to burn fuel for energy also adds to the surrounding environmental issues with pollutants entering the water system and food chain affecting all life including humans. Then there is the unnecessary additional environmental effects of moving the fuel to be used, also pushing up prices to businesses as well as consumers.
Solar panels enormously reduce this, being zero emission generation, having very little effect on the surrounding environment and generating energy for use locally cutting the demand for heavy infrastructure to move the energy around.
Roof Mounting or Ground Mounting
Adding solar panels to the roof of the building is the most popular way to unobtrusively generate clean energy for your business. The panels can be fitted to any roof type, flat or sloping and on many building cannot be seen from the ground.
If the space is available or roof mounting is not an option, there are ground mount options including systems to cover what is often low yielding space like car parks or parking spaces. Covering car parks is gaining in popularity due to the benefits for car owners too – keeps cars cool in the summer and the rain / snow off in inclement weather. Ground mounting is also an excellent way to extend an already installed roof solar energy system
Using Battery Storage To Gain Faster Returns
Businesses and other organisations benefit from using the solar energy generated when they are most active in the day, but many systems do not make best use of the energy. On many days at peak production time the panels generate excess energy that the business cannot use effectively so end up selling that energy to the grid for a much lower price than it costs to import it from the grid.
This is where batteries are an ideal solution, with the ability to store that excess energy that was being sold for very little and time shift it to lower generation times – early morning, late afternoon and evenings. In months of low generation, batteries can be used in another way to save money – read more here.
Batteries also give the organisation resiliency against power interruptions.
Financing Solar Panels / Solar Energy Systems
The most popular option is self financing for purchasing commercial solar panel systems as it offers the best returns. However if you do not want to finance the system yourself or have other commitments then financing for solar systems is available.
With finance there is no size fits all so whether you would like asset finance, a more traditional hire purchase type of agreement, simple loan or even leasing, or a community program, a finance package can be put together to meet your needs. See Commercial Solar Energy Finance for more details.
There are other options too like leasing space for a solar system to be installed and Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
Keep Your Solar Panels Performing At Their Best
Once installed being aware of the solar panel system’s health will help keep the panels and other components e.g. inverter, batteries, fully functioning over their lifetime protecting your investment and keeping the cost of energy low.
To help you with this or even remove that job from you, Solus offers a proactive monitoring service to pre-empt any issues coupled with a maintenance service should it be required.
Commercial solar energy systems are low maintenance, but we can never say never, and sometimes a wash is required to remove the poop from that circling flock of birds.
As you can see from the the high returns that solar panels deliver through low cost electricity, to energy security and environmental benefits, solar technology is one of the most popular sustainable solutions to date with thousands of small, medium and large UK businesses plus organisations, Government bodies etc have now switched to solar to power their operations. Will you join them?